I just returned from Texas where I presented at the Career Clusters Institute on the global nature of today’s workforce. While the goal of the session was to provide strategies for teaching career and technical education (CTE) in a global manner, our lively discussion revealed that many in the field still need to make the […]

How to prepare your students for the global innovation age? The answers should be found in every classroom! There is a lot of buzz in today’s society about preparing students for the global workforce, and educating them to be tomorrow’s innovators. As most schools in the country are working to align curriculum with the new […]

Are we really serious when we say that schools should nurture creativity and other skills for innovation? An increasing number of countries see fostering of creativity and critical thinking as the next educational challenge: traditional good grades may no longer suffice to equip the workforce with the skills needed to fuel innovation-driven economic growth. The […]

As Thomas Friedman put it in a recent New York Times column, globalization compounds the urgency for students to develop the skills and knowledge they need for economic and civic success in the 21st century. Yet despite widespread agreement among parents, educators, employers, and policymakers worldwide that students need skills like critical thinking, problem solving, […]

Mission

Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Across the fields of arts, business, culture, education, and policy, the Society provides insight, generates ideas, and promotes collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared future.

Founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Asia Society is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution with headquarters in New York, with centers in the United States and throughout Asia.

Asia Society’s educational mission is to ensure students have equal access to an excellent education, which today, must include being globally competent. The Partnership for Global Learning works with American and international school systems to spread best practices in preparing students for a global innovation economy.

What We Offer

Strategies for building global competence in schools and expanded learning programs

Preparation for educators to teach about the world

Approaches for creating foreign language programs in schools and districts

Policy studies and funding resources to advance global competencies

Ways to harness technology and create new opportunities for international collaboration